Edublogger Review: Well, That's Different..

August 6th, 2010 Published by: philosophyandrew
Edublogger Review
brushing up on skills and credentials; when the recession is
A "mash-up" of postings from nine engaging educational over, hit the job market as a stronger candidate. I can certainly
and e-learning bloggers. imagine worse strategies.
Last year many of those twentysomethings had enough

Well, That’s Different... support to come to college for the first time. Our largest
Source: http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2010/08/well-thats-different.html increases were among young men of color, who are otherwise
By Dean Dad on August 6th, 2010 at pretty severe risk in this society, and who don’t typically
This Fall’s enrollment patterns aren’t looking anything like come here in large numbers. I’d hate to see that population
historical norms. I’m curious to see if that’s a local quirk, or if sink back underground, both unemployed and uneducated.
folks elsewhere are seeing the same thing. That movie doesn’t end well.
Traditionally, cc enrollments go up during recessions. (That’s Obviously, education is only one component of what needs to
because when the job market collapses, so to does the be a much larger economic change, but it’s one we can actually
opportunity cost of college.) That happened with a vengeance sort of control. We can choose to make college an economically
last year, when we broke records with a double-digit accessible option, or we can let unemployment benefits run
percentage increase in a single year. The severity of the out before the recession does. I just don’t know how we can do
increase was unusual, but the direction was what we expected. both?
Of course, recessions also bring cuts in state funding, making
for a nasty financial pincer movement, but that, too, was Wise and worldly readers who have access to numbers like
predictable, even if the severity of it wasn’t. these, are you seeing something similar in your neck of the
woods?
This Fall, with just a few weeks to go before the start of classes,
we’re seeing a weird bifurcation. Applications for enrollment,
and applications for financial aid, are both up significantly
even when compared to last year. But students who have The joy of failure
Source: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/08/04/the-joy-of-failure/
actually registered are significantly down. Put differently, the
By gsiemens on August 6th, 2010
number of students who started trying to attend and then
vanished is dramatically higher than it has been in past years. Google Wave is dead . The best way to doom a product is
to call it an “email killer”. Personally, I think it’s great that
The folks in Admissions have done follow-up calls to the a large company like Google is willing to experiment, fail,
folks who’ve applied and taken their placement tests but not and regroup. Sure, there’s a bit of a black eye associated with
registered, to see what happened. I was hoping to hear that public failures (Nexus One, Notebook, Dodgeball). However,
the most common reason was something like “you were my if a company (or person) is not failing big enough to warrant
safety school, but my first choice school came through with attention, chances are that their experimentation is too
a great offer.” Instead, the most common answer was “my conservative. (I’d like to illustrate this point with Microsoft’s
unemployment ran out.” Kin failure , but that is an example of incompetence, not
experimentation).
I didn’t expect that.
This is where the “education as private good” idea has real Ten reasons
social costs. If you have a significant population that just Source: http://www.jarche.com/2010/08/ten-reasons/
can’t find work because the economy is in the tank, and that By Harold Jarche on August 6th, 2010
population would like to go to college but doesn’t have the Jane Hart posted a tongue-in-cheek video on 10 reasons to ban
income for living expenses -- financial aid is great for tuition social media with the caveat, “Be careful who you show this
and such, but doesn’t do much for living expenses -- then what video to – they might actually believe it ”. One comment to
would you have that population do? her blog post really struck me:
I agree that college isn’t for everybody. Some people prefer to Strange thing is that I wasn’t laughing as he is far
jump straight into the work world; some would likely benefit too near the truth – the senior management and IT
from something like an apprenticeship or short-term training. departments that I know DO think like this. What is
But for the twentysomething without a job or any realistic now needed is a rebuttal of this video. Not just saying
near-term prospect of one, I have to think that community that’s not the case but giving good cogent business
college is one of the better options. Ride out the recession by arguments to each of the 10 (or indeed 11) points. How
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for instance would you answer this one. “What sort of By Tony Karrer on August 6th, 2010
learning process takes place in the minds of learners I was recently asked me about my recommendations for
when using Twitter?” Just saying communication, conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference).
keeping up to date, exchanging information is not They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference.
enough for these doubters. It may seem ludicrous to This conference has been run for a few years now and is
suggest it but how do we link social learning with the tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year.
bottom line? We had to do that for e-learning….
This is my attempt to collect some of what we’ve learned
I must say that “good cogent business arguments” abound, over the years doing those conferences. There’s some
but first they must be read and then understood and then put good information back in Online Conferences and In-Person
into contextual practice. Many people, including my partners Conferences, Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference
at the Internet Time Alliance, have been discussing and using Attendee, Online Conference Formats, and Conference
social media for business and publishing frequently on how Preparation.
increasing networks and complexity are influencing workplace
design and human performance. Here is just a sampling of 1. Assign people into roles. For us we have someone who
what’s already been discussed, much of it via social media. is an overall producer (actually there are three of us, but
10. Social media is a fad. Social media are an extension of the we split it well), session moderator, recording engineer,
Internet and the Web, and are becoming embedded in our speaker prep person.
work and leisure time. If the Net is a fad, then so are social 2. Technical Issues. Prepare for technical issues and decide
media – place your bets. what you will do about them. We’ve used Elluminate as
9. It’s about controlling the message.Networks, the new our webinar system. It has issues with firewalls. So, we
organizational model, mean giving up control and our ask everyone to test until they find a location where they
hierarchical work models are no longer effective nor efficient. can connect. This means that some people need to attend
from home.
8. Employees will goof off. What looks like goofing off, such as
Twitter, may actually be knowledge work. 3. Communicate all of the details in great detail. No matter
how much you feel its obvious what to do, there will
7. Social Media is a time waster. Not if you use some methods be confusion. This is especially true with information
and processes (like PKM) to make sense of all those networks like testing the virtual meeting software, getting into
[that's how I'm able to write this post so quickly]. sessions, protocols during sessions, time zones, etc.
6. Social media has no business purpose … other than to foster 4. Closely related to the above, make sure you have a well
innovation and collaboration. known way/place to submit questions and some assigned
5. Employees can’t be trusted.The knowledge economy is the to answer these.
trust economy, so you either have to hire new employees or 5. Make it obvious where to access to resources from
change your business model. More resources at The Trusted speakers. For us, we create a discussion topic associate
Advisor. with the session and attach files or content into that.
4. Don’t cave into the demands of the millennials.The whole 6. Session timing and design is difficult online. Most
idea of digital natives is dying – the changing workplace affects presenters are not used to designing for online, so it’s
everybody. important to help them plan their sessions to be effective.
3. Your teams already share knowledge effectively. Really? You definitely need interaction and time for Q&A.
Homeland Security: information sharing is still not where it Some of the best sessions have very effective means of
should be. How about BP? capturing the wisdom of the attendees. Even the length
of sessions is challenging. Long sessions can try to get
2. You’ll get viruses. Not if you use a Mac Dave Snowden:
too much content in and often lose steam before Q&A.
“Since I’ve left IBM I’ve had fewer virus attacks working in
Short sessions often means really superficial. This is
an open Web environment than I did in a secure corporate
where a good prep person along with a good moderator
environment.”
can really help.
1. Your competition isn’t using it, so why should you? Unless
7. Open discussions have worked, but they are risky. I
your competition is one of the thousands of start-ups coming
often find they meander too much for me. Of course, I
to market, or incumbents like Cisco or IBM. Even dairy
generally am more comfortable with directed Learning
farmers use social media. You can be sure your markets are
Goals. Certainly, if you are going to try it have a great
using social media to talk about your products and services.
moderator and interesting audience.
8. Getting participation outside of the sessions is
19 Tips for Effective Online challenging. People don’t read things, or enter
Conferences discussions ahead of the sessions. No matter how hard
we’ve tried, it’s VERY difficult to get an audience to do
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElearningTechnology/~3/
anything ahead of when the sessions start. And it’s even
y1VEyc513e8/19-tips-for-effective-online.html
difficult to get them to engage through discussion forums
outside of the sessions. It’s best to design things where
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the discussion forums are an added bonus and have some
set questions to spark discussion. But don’t count on that Undercover Agents Gather
much participation. Evidence Of Misdeeds By For-
9. Make sure you have breaks between blocks of sessions.
The conference staff needs it, but so do the attendees,
Profit Recruiters
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/08/undercover-agents-
even if you think they will pick and choose sessions.
gather-evidence-of-misdeeds-by-forprofit-recruiters.html
10. For us, defining the times for sessions is difficult. There’s By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
no way to choose time slots where it’s not an ungodly
Undercover investigators posing as students interested in
hour in some part of the world. Not sure we’ve ever
enrolling at 15 for-profit colleges found that recruiters at
figured out an answer.
four of the colleges encouraged prospective students to lie on
11. Text Chat works great during sessions as a Back Channel. their financial aid applications — and all 15 misled potential
Encourage it and make sure the moderator and/or students about their programs’ cost, quality and duration, or
presenter weave it into the session – see Presentation the average salary of graduates, according to a federal report.
Backchannel Multitasking. Also, make sure that the According to the report, the colleges in question were chosen
presenter is not distracted by chat. I always encourage because they got nearly 90 percent of their revenues from
speakers to ignore it and I’ll (as the moderator) let them federal aid. Read more at:
know when there’s something I’d like them to discuss. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/
And I’m not a big fan of using multiple back channel education/04education.html?
tools that effectively split the discussion. Just keep it in _r=2&ref=government_accountability_office
the webinar tool.
12. Inject fun into the event. Nancy White jumped in to lead
a round of Pecha Kucha using slides she had never seen
Urban Copyright Legends
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/211034
before. The spontaneity and spirit of fun raised energy
By ckeller on August 6th, 2010
levels. Need fun stuff sprinkled throughout. Moderators
can help this greatly. Resources Title: Urban
13. Speakers on a common topic should get to know one Resource Copyright
another and swap ideas on their approach in advance of Center Legends
the session. (ID:
EDUCAUSE
14. Pictures of speakers make the event more real. Have CSD5931)
Publications
pictures on session descriptions and on the first slide of
Author(s):
each speaker.
15. Thanks to Scott Skibell, we recorded the sessions directly Topics:
off the web, i.e., outside of Elluminate and he produced
Source:
great recordings. This helps a lot.
16. We’ve tried a few different ice breakers. Interaction to Origin:
learn the webinar tool is always a good idea. Sometimes
Type:
a kind of introduction to break the ice with audio can be
good. Especially if you want audio input. Many people Abstract: This
freely text chat, but don’t like to speak online. publication
17. Be careful with screen sharing and video. They require so attempts
much bandwidth that they often make the presentation to
not work for lots of attendees. Much better to use screen clear
shots. up
several
18. Some people take online commitments lightly. Several copyright
presenters never showed up. Some volunteer moderators misconceptions
disappeared when we tried to pin down times for them including
to cover. fair
19. Online conferences have the advantage of being able to use
have introductory and truly advanced topics that will and
appeal to a narrow audience. licensing
issues.
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work remains the intellectual
property of the individual A new correspondent writes:
author(s) (see Special This morning I followed up on a
Circumstances). Content Chronicle article from the tail end of
from conference speeches, last week (http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Do-All-
presentations, blogs, wikis Faculty-Members-Really/25897/?
and feeds reflect the sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en), and I
opinions of the author, and was truly disheartened by the comments. The idea
not necessarily those of itself I liked, mainly the idea of common space for
EDUCAUSE or its members. casual interactions (I have experienced isolation both
as a faculty member and as an administrator), but
the comments were disturbing. How is it acceptable
for "scholarly and educated" people to spit out
A sustainable future for open such personal attacks? There were a number of
textbooks? The Flat World comments that simply said "I think privacy and
student conversations will be an issue", but many
Knowledge story more simply went straight into the "what an idiot,
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=53058 what a stupid idea" mentality.
August 6th, 2010
I have noticed this in the comments on a number of
higher ed sites, even occasionally in the comments on
John Hilton III and David Wiley describe the model of Flat
your blog.
World Knowledge so far. "Many college students and their
families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks.
E–books have been proposed as one potential solution;
Has higher ed always been this way? Have you
open source textbooks have also been explored. A company
noticed an increase in this type of attitude? Or is this
called Flat World Knowledge produces and gives away open
just an easy outlet for angry people?
source textbooks in a way they believe to be financially
sustainable. This article reports an initial study of the financial
sustainability of the Flat World Knowledge open source
I have been working at a community college for 12
textbook model."
years- 9 as faculty, in various ft/pt configurations,
and the last 3 as an administrator. While overall
Comments I believe the faculty and staff at this college are
dedicated and want to see things work, people (on
Comment both sides) are still keen to make personal comments
You are not logged in. [Login] and pass judgement on situations of which they have
very little understanding.
Title
Your comment:
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Although I am a firm believer in the mission of It’s frustrating, but I’m not sure what’s to be done about
the community college, and of higher education in it beyond sticking to the high road as much as possible.
general, I am considering exploring other industries Online, I’ve had to learn to restrain myself from hitting back at
that might have less rancor. comments like those, since the exchanges quickly devolve into
free-for-alls.
I suppose the easy answer is to just not read the On campus, of course, “contrapower harassment” is legion,
comments, but then you miss the dialogue and and even blessed with honorifics like “gadfly” or “thorn in
sharing of actual ideas. the side of the administration.” For a professor to attack
me personally in front of two hundred people is considered
academic freedom; for me to hit back would be considered
Is this something you have noticed? retaliation. The double standard does nothing to encourage
honest discussion, and frankly, drives a lot of good people
Before venturing some thoughts, I’ll just make a distinction
out of administration over time. (Oddly, the folks who attack
between the general topic and the historical angle. I’m
the hardest also complain about administrative turnover,
generally skeptical of “people used to be nicer” arguments, and
and never connect the dots.) Tenure enables contrapower
it’s hard to say in the context of blogs and online discussion
harassment, which is probably why the harassment is much
boards since their history doesn’t go back terribly far. So I can’t
worse in higher ed than in most settings.
really give an intelligent answer one way or the other on the
question of historical trajectory.
The irony is hard to miss. The same tenure that’s supposed
to protect the free exchange of ideas actually enables a
But the larger issue of personal attacks is very real.
culture of embedded hostility that frequently prevents honest
discussion. In his wonderful book The No Asshole Rule, Robert
I’ve read that social psychologists have a term -- the
Sutton notes that tenured academia is one of the most difficult
“fundamental attribution error” -- for the common mistake
settings in which to change a culture, since it’s structured
of ascribing others’ objectionable behavior to character flaws,
almost perfectly to reward me-first behavior. (Notice that it’s
rather than to missing information or external constraints. (I
a structural argument.) Once you reach a certain critical mass,
stopped abruptly because someone cut me off; the guy who cut
there really isn’t much to be done.
me off is just an asshole.) I’ve seen that both online and in my
day job.
That said, though, I’ve found a few techniques generally
effective in settings that haven’t reached critical mass.
In the day job, I’ve been accused repeatedly -- to my face
and in public -- of harboring secret agendas to “do in” this
The most basic one is actually listening. People shout when
program or that one, of thinking of faculty as piece workers,
they think they aren’t being heard. The longer they feel
and of being -- in the words of one particularly charming
ignored, the more blustery and unhinged they tend to be when
public interlocutor -- “just idiotic.” All of those have been in
they finally have a moment. If you make a habit of actually
response to budget-driven decisions. None of them suggested
listening, I’ve found that over time, most people will slowly
realistic alternatives to my ideas; when pressed, none of them
calm down. (I say “most” because some never will. Just a fact
even involved a recognition that budgetary decisions need to
of life.) If you only have one shot at being heard, you’ll swing
get made at all. I’ve had to learn not to take the bait, and to
for the cheap seats; if you know you’ll be heard on a regular
recognize the lashing out as a function of propinquity more
basis, you can choose your moments more judiciously.
than anything else. If I’m goring somebody’s ox, it must be
because I’m an asshole; surely there’s no such thing as a real
A second, related one is admitting when you’re wrong, and/
resource constraint. When other administrators do the exact
or incorporating better ideas when you hear them. I’ve made
same thing -- since we’re all working against the same state
a point of noting changes derived from public input, and of
cuts -- well, we’re all just assholes.
crediting the folks who made the input, whenever possible. It
seems to help, since it shows (correctly) that constructive input
Online, of course, it’s frequently worse. In the comments at
can actually work. A lot of the more histrionic stuff seems to
IHE to my recent posts about the tenure/adjunct dialectic,
come from a sense that it’s all just futile anyway; disprove the
for example, I was accused of “pathetic self-absorption,”
futility thesis, and some folks will adjust accordingly. Show
“turn[ing] into a monster,” and my personal favorite:
respect, and eventually some of it will find its way back.
Dean Dad, when you are meeting with a candidate for a
Of course, there’s also modeling. This is tricky since nobody’s
tenure track position at your college, do you tell that person,
perfect, but there’s something to be said for leading by
"You should be aware of the fact that I oppose the idea
example. At first, it can feel like unilateral disarmament, but
of tenure and believe higher education would be better off
it ages well.
without it"?
And then there’s just knowing your own limits. We all have our
It’s easier than actually engaging the argument, I guess, but it
hot buttons, and we all have our lesser moments. Sometimes
doesn’t exactly encourage others to join the debate.
it’s best just to change the subject or postpone the discussion.
And some people will be contrary or difficult for sub-rational
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reasons no matter what you do; once you suss out who those Each person’s knowledge needs and knowledge use are
folks are, tune them out. unique. For example, Owen Ferguson explains that experts
shouldn’t design online resources for novices:
So to answer your question, yes, I’ve noticed. I wish it The curse of the expert when it comes to online
weren’t so, but there it is. Wise and worldly readers, have you presentation is that they often decide they know
found ways of dealing successfully with folks who think it’s better and produce a design that matches their own
reasonable to yell insults across crowded auditoriums? knowledge map – totally confusing the user. IT
experts design the IT part of the intranet, HR experts
Have a question? Ask the Administrator at deandad (at) gmail design the HR part of the intranet, product experts
(dot) com. design the product information parts of the intranet
and all express surprise that users never seem to use
them.
Leveraging collective Actually, designing “for” anybody becomes a problem. Valued
professional* work is non-standardized, as standardized work
knowledge today just gets automated and outsourced. Who really knows
Source: http://www.jarche.com/2010/08/leveraging-collective-knowledge/ what knowledge needs any professional may have? How many
By Harold Jarche on August 6th, 2010 levels of novices, journeymen and experts are there in an
This week, a few related knowledge management (KM) articles organization? Hence the need for the mass customization of
crossed my path and I’d like to weave them together. (knowledge) work processes.
Here’s a model that shows how KM has progressed over the The relationship with personal knowledge management
past 15 years. Nancy Dixon discusses three eras of knowledge (PKM) is clear. The challenge is to enable “small pieces
management as moving from Explicit Knowledge (document (individuals) loosely joined” – to seek, make-sense of and
management) to Experiential Knowledge (communities of share their knowledge. I use a combination of my blog,
practice; expertise locators) and now to Collective Knowledge bookmarks, and tweets to inform my outboard brain so I can
(social media). This post and Nancy’s previous ones, are well retrieve contextual knowledge as I interact with my clients
worth the read as a primer on KM. and colleagues. My process works for me, but it cannot be
copied as a standardized process. The real challenge is to help
Leveraging collective knowledge may be our collective
each person find a process that works on an individual basis
challenge but there are no guaranteed solutions at this time.
while supporting the organization in leveraging collective
This is still new territory.
knowledge.
Although the first thinking about Leveraging
—
Collective Knowledge began to appear around 2005,
there are only a few leading edge organizations * A professional is anyone who does work that cannot
that have developed new practices for making use be standardized easily and who continuously welcomes
of their organization’s collective knowledge. Most challenges at the cutting edge of his or her expertise. David
organizations are still centered in the perspective Williamson Shaffer
of the second era and some, who have come late
to knowledge management, are still struggling with
getting good content management in place. This Animal House Is Not
The need for KM is evident. In the gorilla illusions, Nick Milton Funny
points out that we need to create knowledge artifacts in order Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/08/this-animal-house-
to counter the tendencies of our brains to make things up over is-not-funny.html
time. These illusions include: By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
On March 18 at Cloyne Court , a co-op residence

• The illusion of memory
owned by UC Berkeley , 21-year-old John Gibson
• The illusion of confidence suffered a heart attack that caused irreversible brain damage
• The illusion of knowledge during the three hours before anyone called 911. A hospital
test found cocaine and marijuana in his blood. Police
As Nick concludes, “The implication is that if you will need records and interviews with former residents suggest both
to re-use tacit knowledge in the future, then you can’t rely are right: Cloyne residents are bright. They love the house.
on people to remember it.” With more information passing And they embrace a culture tolerant of drinking and drugs.
by us from multiple sources, our ability to keep track of it Students hunting for a substance to abuse could do worse
with only our brains is rather limited. We need systems, but than visit the historic house at 2600 Ridge Road. Cloyne
more powerful and more flexible ones than currently offered and the tragedy of John Gibson serve as a microcosm
by enterprise software systems like document management, not only of an explosion of substance abuse on college
expertise location, learning management or communities of campuses - but of its casual acceptance. Read more
practice. at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/
a/2010/08/01/MNKK1EHAN8.DTL#ixzz0vdn4vLlG
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By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
Ten Steps to Secure Your College students filling out their dormitory housing requests
this summer are making decisions about their future
Mobile Device roommate: Messy or neat? Smoker or non? Early bird
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/211031 or night owl? Now many of them have a new question
By ckeller on August 6th, 2010 to ponder: Male or female? Across the country, colleges
are changing the roommate rules and allowing men and
This Higher Education Information Security Council resource women to share a bedroom. the shift marks the next step
includes US-CERT recommendations and suggested steps to in a decades-long evolution that's shrunk the space that
take when securing campus mobile devices, as well as links once separated the sexes on college campuses. Read more
to higher education resources, industry resources, and recent at: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/03/2932184/co-ed-
articles. dorm-rooms-latest-option.html#ixzz0vdluM74z
Open Panopto
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=53057
August 6th, 2010
By drupal on August 6th, 2010
The current EDUCAUSE Review is a blockbuster. I'll just Unless otherwise noted, EDUCAUSE holds the copyright
publish the chapter headings: on all materials published by the association, whether in
print or electronic form. In certain cases the work remains
The Open Future: Openness as Catalyst for an Educational the intellectual property of the individual author(s) (see
Reformation , David Wiley. "As institutions and as individuals, Special Circumstances ). Content from conference speeches,
we seem to have forgotten the core values of education: presentations, blogs, wikis and feeds reflect the opinions of
sharing, giving, and generosity." the author, and not necessarily those of EDUCAUSE or its
members.
The Open Student: Questioning the Future of the Open
Student , Vicki Davis. "Open content is not yet changing
students' lives because there are questions that should be Language and thought
answered first." Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=53056
August 6th, 2010
The Open Course: Through the Open Door: Open Courses
as Research, Learning, and Engagement , Dave Cormier Does language influence thought, and does the way we speak
and George Siemens. "Online open courses can leverage influence the way we think? Well, yes, obviously. But that's
communications technologies and open the door to learners to because the way we do anything influences the way we think.
fully engage with the academic process." Anything else that we did as much as we read, listen and
speak would influence us as much. Photography, for example -
The Open Faculty: To Share or Not to Share: Is That the being a habitual photographer has changed the way I look and
Question? , Maria H. Andersen. "Open digital faculty do more landscapes and street scenes. I literally see them, and think
than just share and participate in open resources; they transfer about them, differently. The real question is, "Can we think of
their approaches to the teaching space." an object, or a concept if we don't know the words to use for
such?" i don't know, maybe if you hum the tune I'll pick it up.
The Open Ed Tech: Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great There is, in my view, nothing special about language in thought
Web 2.0 Swindle , Brian Lamb and Jim Groom. "Has the except for volume. You can think in images, you can think in
wave of the open web crested? What does "open educational musical arrangements, you can think in vague formless flow
technology" look like, and does it stand for anything?" charts.
Tighter Regulation of For-

The Open World: Access to Knowledge as a Foundation for
an Open World , Carolina Rossini. "The right to be a creator,
the right to govern and develop one's own knowledge, and the Profit IHEs Could Have A
right to share with others are fundamental freedoms for the
Internet age." Downside
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/08/tighter-regulation-
Also, Openness: A Core Value for Making Higher Education of-forprofit-ihes-could-have-a-downside.html
Great , Diana G. Oblinger. By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
Most experts agree more regulation is needed in the for-

Co-Ed Dorm Rooms Achieve profit education industry that has grown exponentially in
recent years and receives a significant portion of its revenues
Growing Acceptance from federally backed loans. But advocates for the for-
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/08/coed-dorm-rooms- profit industry say many of the proposed rules will hurt
achieve-growing-acceptance.html students and their access to higher education and impose
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more bureaucracy. Supporters of nonprofit private and traits — their collective personality — is a far more slippery
public schools worry the rules also could have unintended territory. Thus the debate over the Generation Y character, and
consequences. Read more at: whether generations even have distinct characters. Read more
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/new- at:
rules-could-limit-students-access-to-higher-education-say- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/
experts-840146.html health/03mind.html?nl=health&emc=healthupdateema1
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Google Wave Is Dead: Now Common Sense: Journal of

What? the Edinburgh Conference of
August 6th, 2010
Socialist Economists
Google Wave has been discontinued after a year of being August 6th, 2010
ignored. From my own perspective, while I thought the
idea had potential, it seemed to me that it imported all Intended to be "a journal of a wholly new type," this journal ran
the usability problems of Google Groups, which (especially from 1987 to 1999, beginning as "bundle of different articles
after using flawless Yahoo Groups) I really dislike. I never can then be stapled together and put between simple folded
understood why we would want to put all our discussion covers" with a circulation of a half dozen or so. The idea was to
into one single (Google-hosted) thread. But maybe Ray take advantage of technology, dispense with the gatekeeping
Schroeder sums it up best: "Wave is a complex tool. Those functions, and publish what they wanted. Twelve years later,
who took the necessary time to learn the tool, found it to the editors, burnt out , called a halt to the now much more
be especially robust and useful for many situations. Those mainstream journal. Digitized and posted by Joss Winn , the
who could only invest ten minutes in learning Wave were journal is now reaching its objective of being read by the world.
frustrated and confused." Karim R. Lakhani, at Harvard It's not necessarily the content that I celebrate here - like any
Business, meanwhile, thought Google's decision to shut down other journal, there will be good stuff and bad - it's the spirit of
Wave showed "strong innovation management" following the the publishers. This is the kind of thing (complete with hand-
market's indifference to the tool. Discover Magazeine offers stapled editions) I would have done had there not been an
four reasons why people didn't like Wave. internet.
Not So Easy To Assess The Dining Hall Food Is Going

Collective Personality Of A Organic
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Generation going-organic.html
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/08/not-so-easy-to- By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
assess-the-collective-personality-of-a-generation.html
When I spent the day at Penn with my daughter, Nicole. My
By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
ears immediately perked up when our tour guide mentioned
Trying to pin down the character of a generation is a the school’s new, sustainable-minded, organic-leaning dining
controversial and, some say, presumptuous exercise. Who’s service provider. Our guide sheepishly admitted that the food
to say whether 50 million Americans should be called the Me had been pretty bad and that although she was decreasing
Generation, or the Greatest? Who’s to decide exactly when the number of meals on her meal plan, she was pretty excited
Gen X ends and Gen Y begins? Social scientists have been about the change. I was just glad to hear that the university
surveying young people for decades, looking for trends in decided it was time to transform Penn’s notoriously dreaded
thinking and behavior that might be attributable to shifts student dining experience. Read more at:
in the broader culture. Tracking behaviors and attitudes is
relatively straightforward. But assessing their motives, their
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http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/cage-free- By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
school-food/?partner=rss&emc=rss When for-profit universities started popping up in the 1990s,
they seemed like such a good idea. The reality, however, has
Patch cable not been so impressive. For-profit universities have succeeded
in harvesting billions of dollars annually in federal student aid.
Many are also quite adept at paying huge executive salaries
and lobbying to keep the taxpayer money flowing. But sky-high
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print or electronic form. In certain cases the work remains the kind of skilled workers that America so desperately needs.
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Academics Build Blog-to-
eBook Publishing Tool in One Additional IP addresses
Week
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University to participate in the inaugural One Week, One members.
Tool program. Supported by the National Endowment for
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they called it a barn raising, and the structure they built Poor Math Leads To Over-
is Anthologize.org . Anthologize is a Wordpress plugin that
allows scholars, conference organizers, and bloggers to create Enrolling Freshman Class By
eBooks out of websites." You can export in several formats,
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Ten Percent
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More from parezco y digo , sample reality , Found History , By StevenB on August 6th, 2010
with a three-part 'lessons learned' series ( part one , part two
, part three ), coverage of the live launch by Digital Campus, Like an airline overselling a flight, the University of
National Endowment for the Humanities (who funded the Iowa extended admission this year to several thousand more
project) report by Brett Bobley , Teleogistic , Dan Cohen , the applicants than it could accommodate on campus in this fall’s
Chronicle , ReadWriteWeb , Sherman Dorn , Bigger Picture freshman class. Iowa officials were surprised to learn this
, Musematic , the development team's Google Group . spring how far off they were in their math. This fall’s freshman
class is likely to have more than 400 more students than last
Brett Bobley writes, "What made this institute so compelling year’s, an unintended increase of about 10 percent, for a total
was the format. Rather than a more typical series of lectures, of just over 4,500. T he looming flood of new students has left
CHNM went with a "learn by doing" format. For Oneweek, the university scrambling to figure out where they will sleep,
the 12 participants traveled to Fairfax, Virginia for a very and how to fit them into some of the most popular courses.
intense week learning how to plan, build, market, and deploy Read more at:
an actual, useful digital humanities software tool." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/
education/04admissions.html?_r=1
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